ERD50
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
I've worked on very low volume (single digit per month shipments), to very high volume (hundreds of thousands per month). I recall my boss figuring that the sales volume from the area our group had direct responsibility for would put us in the S&P 500.I spent most of my career in aerospace, where low-volume and high-cost attributes are the norm. I am now more interested and curious in high-volume products for the masses, because they have better potential for enhancing the life for more people. ....
The low volume can be very interesting, the high volume more satisfying in some ways (and interesting in different ways) - as you say, it's pretty cool knowing you've enhanced the lives of that many people, even if only in some small way. But it sometimes was in a big way.
... I am more interested in the battery technology anyway, and there's no way to invest in that alone. Panasonic is building the cells for Tesla inside that factory, and the latter is doing the engineering to assemble them into packs. If Tesla bites the dust, Panasonic can take its secret sauce recipe elsewhere, so not all is lost.
I have some other thoughts on batteries, maybe better for that thread I started a while back on the future of the ICE. Maybe later. Any updates on your battery project?
-ERD50